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  • David of Basra
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  • David of Basra, sometimes rendered Dudi of Basra or David of Charax, was a third- and fourth-century CE Christian Metropolitan bishop who undertook missionary work in India around the year 300 (295 in some sources). He is among the earliest documented Christian missionaries in India, perhaps later only than the the apostle Thomas, who may have visited India in the first century, though sources for the period are fragmentary and sometimes confused.
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  • David of Basra, sometimes rendered Dudi of Basra or David of Charax, was a third- and fourth-century CE Christian Metropolitan bishop who undertook missionary work in India around the year 300 (295 in some sources). He is among the earliest documented Christian missionaries in India, perhaps later only than the the apostle Thomas, who may have visited India in the first century, though sources for the period are fragmentary and sometimes confused.